Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-04-21
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
The LAfest Materials for Sprin% Toilets
Seaseaable millinery Notes.


| The Latest Materials for xpri.x Toilets
seAseaable millinery Notes.
The fresh importation of French
white toilets, embroidered and lace
trimmed. are marvels of Partisan skill,
art and matchless delicacy.
New surahs. with diagonal twill. are
shown in rich solid colors and in many
fancy plaids and stripes. These are 10
be made up as entire gowns and not in
combination with vest, Stuart collar
and cuffs of velvet. The skirts are
laid in extra wide kits. with folds Of
the velvet inserted at regular inter-
walls.
Very rich-looking vests. yoke., col
lar and cuffs are imported in silk gimp
effects. in mot or heavy raised devices
in arabesque patterns. and also in fine
scroll and palm devices. These de-
tachable decorations are certain to find
a large sale in spite of their rather
high price. because they are so trans
forming in their effect at the cost of n
very little work. The simplest and
soberest costumes are at once rendered
extremely dressy and stylish looking
by the adjustment of these picturesque
and novel accessories.
Materials for spring and summer
millinery are unusually rich and varied.
There are black and tinted silk nets.
beaded in jet. pearl. heliotrope yell
low. pale blue and pale pink beads in
fine new patterns, embroidered vel
vets in very elegant designs. Oriental
embroidered nets in great variety,
Neapolitan grapes in exquisite summer
tints, embroidered crepe de chine, plain
and embroidered grenadines. and the
endless variety of silk tissues, laccs,
surahs, Examines and fancy silk scrims.
The Scotch zephyr einghams and
chambreys brought out this season are
worthy Of special mention. The tufted
striped ginghams have the design
woven to closely resemble the silk and
WOO! stripes of last season, and are
shown in novel and really beautiful
combinations of color. The solid col
ored chambreys and ginghams are
dyed in lovely shades of pink. lilac
blue, corn color, ETC., and the embroid-
cred patterns come in various widths
of flouncings. These robe suits are put
up in boxes, and are among the daint-
lest of the season exhibit of novelties
IN cotton fabrics, and they will lie
specially favored for morning cos
tunes by those who prefer neat and
dressy washable fabrics for home utili-
ty wear.
The new straw bonnets are exqui-
sitely fine and shapely. They are
brought out in all the prevailing spring
and summer tints, noticeably, many
shades of golden brown, beige
and ecru, gray. and the natural straw
and wood colors. More novel colOrs
are those of English rose. Charles X.
pink, japanese red, pale heliotrope. or
''wistaria," chamois and peachbIow.
The same tints appear in the straw and
braid hats as in bOnnets. Fancy head |
coverings show odd effects produced |
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velvet is made into canvass pattern
by q diamond mixture Of colorcd straw
or looped in shingle style one above the
other. There are numberless odd con-
ceits in straw gimps. willow and rush
bOnnets, and in silk scrim and fine
straw mating, which are created for
the erratic young creatures WHO sigh
for novelty and aim at oddity. Trim
mings will still be massed upon the top
Of the bonnet in front. The quantity
Of these garnitures will be limited only
by the extent of space allowed by the
size of bonnet and the length of purse
If its buyer.-N y. Post.